Novel Lead Structures for p38 MAP Kinase via FieldScreen Virtual Screening
摘要:
p38 MAP kinase has received considerable interest in the pharmaceutical industry and remains a valid and interesting target for the treatment of inflammation. To discover novel p38 inhibitors, we applied the ligand-based virtual screening technique, FieldScreen, to 1.2 million commercially available compounds. Fifty-eight diverse compounds were selected for biological analysis, using molecular field similarity to known inhibitors, while explicitly removing any structure that shared a scaffold with previously reported p38 inhibitors. Of these, 11 (19%) showed >= 20% inhibition of p38 at 10 mu M. We chose to prepare analogues of two distinct chemical series resulting in a potential lead compound with pIC(50) of 6.4. Modeling of SAR using FieldAlign, a ligand alignment protocol, was used to rationalize the SAR of the series of thiadiazole based inhibitors.
Novel Lead Structures for p38 MAP Kinase via FieldScreen Virtual Screening
作者:Timothy J. Cheeseright、Melanie Holm、Frank Lehmann、Sabine Luik、Marcia Göttert、James L. Melville、Stefan Laufer
DOI:10.1021/jm801399r
日期:2009.7.23
p38 MAP kinase has received considerable interest in the pharmaceutical industry and remains a valid and interesting target for the treatment of inflammation. To discover novel p38 inhibitors, we applied the ligand-based virtual screening technique, FieldScreen, to 1.2 million commercially available compounds. Fifty-eight diverse compounds were selected for biological analysis, using molecular field similarity to known inhibitors, while explicitly removing any structure that shared a scaffold with previously reported p38 inhibitors. Of these, 11 (19%) showed >= 20% inhibition of p38 at 10 mu M. We chose to prepare analogues of two distinct chemical series resulting in a potential lead compound with pIC(50) of 6.4. Modeling of SAR using FieldAlign, a ligand alignment protocol, was used to rationalize the SAR of the series of thiadiazole based inhibitors.